obviously. about 15 minutes before 3:00, half the orchestra was on stage. some of us were backstage. i was backstage and up one flight in the dressing room. and we get earthquakes a lot in japan, you know. i've been here for ten years, and it's not uncommon to get, you know, tremors every once in a while. it started off pretty slow. i thought, you know, no biggee, it's just going to be one of the usual ones. and then, you know, after a few seconds, it just got bigger and bigger. and the people around me, my colleagues, some that are -- all of them that are japanese that have been here forever and experienced lots of earthquakes, you could suddenly see in their eyes that oh, no, man, this is huge. it just started to get bigger and bigger. you really couldn't -- i tried to get up, and the floor was shaking so much that it was hard to even stand. and it just started shaking like crazy. there's a tv monitor that you could actually see on to the stage. and you could see just the lights swinging around. i mean flashing all over the walls. i mean, it looked like a discotheque. it was just goi